Ἀπορρῶγας
precipices
Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 Nov 2001Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] cleaved-off promontories.
"When he found any precipices affording passage, Diocletian closed them off too."1
Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular]a)porrw/c , [meaning] a fragment of a mountain.
And a branch of a family.
"This man was an off-shoot of the Furies."2
"And the rock was entirely precipitous below, and there was no sort of way-up."3
"There was a certain Timon, a vagabond, encompassed by unpassable thorns, an off-shoot of the Furies."4 He was a so-called misanthrope, who Neanthes says fell from a pear-tree and became lame; he would admit no physician, but got gangrene and died, and after his death his tomb was inaccessible, beaten by the sea all around and in the road leading out from Piraeus to Sounion.5 "Unpassable" meaning [sc. he was] unapproachable and unstable and as if hedged round with thorns. Also harsh or hidden by stakes and pales. Meaning a sullen man and a misanthrope.
"When he found any precipices affording passage, Diocletian closed them off too."1
Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular]
And a branch of a family.
"This man was an off-shoot of the Furies."2
"And the rock was entirely precipitous below, and there was no sort of way-up."3
"There was a certain Timon, a vagabond, encompassed by unpassable thorns, an off-shoot of the Furies."4 He was a so-called misanthrope, who Neanthes says fell from a pear-tree and became lame; he would admit no physician, but got gangrene and died, and after his death his tomb was inaccessible, beaten by the sea all around and in the road leading out from Piraeus to Sounion.5 "Unpassable" meaning [sc. he was] unapproachable and unstable and as if hedged round with thorns. Also harsh or hidden by stakes and pales. Meaning a sullen man and a misanthrope.